Diplomat Quotes

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.
He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.
I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.
If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.
Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
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